Reply #48: Time is will tell, for sure

[DeschutesRiver]

It has been a year of watching things that don't make sense that made me wonder. Of course, they only made no sense if I insisted that there was a magic recovery wand to wave for a quick recovery and if I ignored a lot of things. So I approached it from the reverse - what could be going on that would make sense of all these moves?

All I could come up with is that we are going to crash, and he thinks we can do a controlled crash landing, instead of a spin into the ground head first with few or no survivors. Their job has been to make do with not what they want, but what they have on hand, and to secure the pure survival of as many as possible when this thing goes down. I don't think we are going to get a Capt. Sully kind of crash landing, but if we are lucky, we might be like those passengers that went down in the cornfield after the top of their plane blew off. The economy will need as much repair as that plane, but we will live through it, though probably scarred by the memories.

Seeing that he feels it is finally time to start smacking the banks, and cutting needed services, it likely means that some of the gloomier analysis I've read over the last year is more accurate than I'd hoped. I am worried, but I've done what I can to put my life/finances in order, and I help others where I can.

A societal screw up of this magnitude, starting decades ago, simply isn't going to vanish without major pain for everyone. I don't know if Obama will be as masterful about handling this as I hope (bet some days he isn't so sure, either), but at this point I'd rather have him be the one leading us out of this than anyone else I can think of. Even if some of the ugly necessary pisses me off - I should be mad at those who put us here, not the guy willing to take on cleaning up the mess.

We will see.